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Humphries in a 1960 advertisement
(1936-08-22 ) August 22, 1936
New York City , US
July 11, 1994(1994-07-11) (aged 57 )
Jazz
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Drums
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Lex Humphries (August 22, 1936 – July 11, 1994) was an American jazz drummer. He worked with two musicians known for mixing world music with jazz: Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef . As a member of Sun Ra's "Arkestra" he appeared in the film Space Is the Place [1]
Humphries played on the Giant Steps John Coltrane . The alternate versions of "Giant Steps" , "Naima ", and "Like Sonny" that he and Cedar Walton recorded with Coltrane were first released in 1974. He was also the first drummer in the Jazztet , appearing on their first album, Meet the Jazztet
He died in Philadelphia in 1994, aged 57. The cause of death was undisclosed, but according to fellow drummer Mickey Roker , he was distraught in his later years due to marital problems and being separated from his son.[2]
Discography [ edit ]
As sideman [ edit ]
With Donald Byrd
With John Coltrane
With Art Farmer and Benny Golson
With Dizzy Gillespie
With John Handy
With Freddie Hubbard
With Yusef Lateef
With Junior Mance
With Wes Montgomery
With Duke Pearson
With Sonny Red
With Sonny Stitt
With Sun Ra
With Leon Thomas
With McCoy Tyner
With Doug Watkins
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Arkestra members
Super-Sonic Jazz
Sound of Joy
Visits Planet Earth
The Nubians of Plutonia
Jazz in Silhouette
Sound Sun Pleasure!!
Interstellar Low Ways
Fate in a Pleasant Mood
Holiday for Soul Dance
Angels and Demons at Play
We Travel the Space Ways
The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Bad and Beautiful
Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
Secrets of the Sun
When Sun Comes Out
Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy
When Angels Speak of Love
Other Planes of There
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One
The Magic City
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume Two
Strange Strings
Monorails and Satellites
Atlantis
Space Is the Place (soundtrack)
Space Is The Place
Pathways to Unknown Worlds
Cosmos
Deep Purple
Some Blues But Not the Kind That's Blue
New Steps
Other Voices, Other Blues
Visions
Lanquidity
Sleeping Beauty
Strange Celestial Road
Reflections in Blue
Hours After
Blue Delight
Somewhere Else
Purple Night
Mayan Temples
Nothing Is
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
It's After the End of the World
Black Myth/Out in Space
Live in Egypt 1
Nidhamu
Horizon
Live In Montreux
Unity
Live from Soundscape
I, Pharaoh
Sunrise in Different Dimensions
Cosmo Omnibus Imagiable Illusion
Thunder of the Gods
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